So, after all the great work that I did on the site during the first three days and a half days of coding, it’s now four days later and and I’ve had nothing but trouble. It has been so much hassle in fact that I almost gave up on CakePHP and considered changing to CodeIgniter! (But didn’t.)

I don’t want to get into too much detail, but I was having some issues with both the wonderful forum that I was raving about three weeks ago, and a star-rating system that I wanted to add to the site. In the case of the former, the latest edition of the plugin has some bugs which prevent access to the administration system (and the author is currently very busy with other projects, but hopefully an update will be released soon), and in the case of the latter, I was missing some user session data that I had no idea how to add. (more…)